Antarctic Guide Blog
Shortage of icebreakers could lose US the race to the Antarctic
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://io9.com/5873385/shortage-of-icebreaker-ships-could-lose-us-the-race-to-explore-the-antarctic PESSIMISM BY KEITH VERONESE Shortage of icebreaker ships could lose us the race to explore the Antarctic What happens when scientists need supplies, but are hundreds of miles from civilization and surrounded by an 8 foot thick sheet of ice? Billion dollar, specially designed icebreaker ships act as mobile science platforms and make […]
Mountain Range Found Under Antarctic Ice
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Scientist-Finds-Mountain-Range-Under-Antarctic-Ice—136661463.html At Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a short drive north of New York City, more than 300 scientists and researchers are delving into the geophysical mysteries of our planet from virtually every angle. One project is to discover what’s happening beneath the world’s largest ice sheet in remote eastern Antarctica. It’s late afternoon […]
Penguin cam to keep watch on the waddlers
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.smh.com.au/environment/penguincam-to-keep-watch-on-the-waddlers-20111229-1pe3e.html Penguin-cam to keep watch on the waddlers Jo Chandler IT SEEMS no one, and nothing, is safe from the all-seeing gaze of remote camera technology. And it doesn’t get much more remote than Antarctic penguin CCTV. Over the past six summers scientists working from the Australian research stations of Mawson, Davis and Casey […]
Earthquake hits Elephant Island
www.AntarcticGuide.com On Sunday morning local time a magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the remote Antarctic island of Elephant Island. At the top of the South Shetland Island group, Elephant Island is best known as the place where the shipwrecked mariners of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition took shelter and waited for rescue under the leadership […]
Is Shackleton’s Heroism Relevant?
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/should-shackletons-heroism-matter-to-todays-entrepreneurs/250496/ Should Shackleton’s Heroism Matter to Today’s Entrepreneurs? By EDWARD TENNER Not a man was lost during the expedition’s nearly two-year ordeal at sea. Inspiring, sure, but not particularly relevant to today’s leaders. In the New York Times the Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn has a provocative essay on the lessons of the […]
Lockheed Martin wins US Antarctic contract
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122659&org=NSF&from=news NSF Awards Logistical Support Contract for U.S. Antarctic Program December 28, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a multi-year contract to Lockheed Martin for logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). NSF provides funding for scientific research as well as for the necessary associated infrastructure and logistics, which includes […]
UK Psych tests on Antarctic team
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16299859 Psychological tests on Antarctic expedition team A team of 24 servicemen and women who are spending two months in Antarctica next year will have their mental state monitored by sports psychologists. The British Services Antarctic Expedition will head to the South Pole in January to conduct research. The trip will also mark the […]
The man who bankrolled Mawson
www.AntarcticGuide.com The man who bankrolled the Mawson expedition Karen Barlow reported this story on Saturday, December 24, 2011 08:24:00 http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3397659.htm DAVID MARK: A sense of adventure alone will only get you so far, money certainly helps and nobody knew that more than the men of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Sir Douglas Mawson may never […]
Frozen Planet’s brinicle sequence explained
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16250444 28 December 2011 Last updated at 02:36 Frozen Planet’s brinicle sequence explained Kathryn Jeffs, Doug Anderson and Hugh Miller show how difficult filming the brinicle was BBC Natural History Unit producer Kathryn Jeffs reveals the extreme conditions her film-making crew had to endure to capture the bizarre “ice finger of death” – known […]
Frank Wild finally out of Shackleton’s shadow
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16165494 Frank Wild in final journey out of Shackleton’s shadow By Karen Bowerman Frank Wild was the right-hand man to Sir Ernest Shackleton, joining him on several of his Antarctic expeditions. But is he finally stepping out of the great explorer’s shadow, as his ashes make a poignant journey south? Almost 100 years ago, […]